Perception of pesticide exposure
For susceptibility and barriers, the distinction between pesticides
coming out of agriculture and veterinary drugs was made. The
susceptibility of high exposure to veterinary drugs scored low (average
19.5 and std 25.4), while susceptibility of agricultural pesticides
scored higher (average 37.4 and std 31). The scores concerning the
severity of veterinary drug/agricultural pesticide (average 69 and std
21.6) and their benefits on colonies (average 58.9 and std 22.3)
(agriculture and veterinary jointly) scored respectively high and
moderately high; the answers to the questions were quite homogenous as
sdt were low. The barriers to reduce the use of veterinary drugs
(average 39.2 and std 36.2) scored low, similarly to the barriers for
reducing agricultural pesticides (average 34.5 and std 31.1).